A Quote by Joe Sestak

Economic mobility will fix income inequality.

Joe Sestak

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Economic Fix Income Income Inequality Inequality Mobility Will

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Joe Sestak
American - Politician
Born: December 12, 1951

We work harder and we earn less. Income inequality is at the highest point in over a century. While American capitalism never guaranteed success, it did guarantee opportunity, for too many, the dream of economic mobility has been replaced with a nightmare of economic stagnation.

Mario Cuomo

If accessing the Internet becomes more difficult for low-income communities, academic and employment competition may be undermined, and could damage the prospects of upward mobility for low-income New Yorkers and further exacerbate income inequality.

Letitia James

If you really want to end income inequality, I've got the way to fix it. People who don't work shouldn't get any income.

Rush Limbaugh

Income inequality has no necessary connection with poverty, the lack of material resources for a decent life, such as adequate food, shelter, and clothing. A society with great income inequality may have no poor people, and a society with no income inequality may have nothing but poor people.

Robert Higgs

An important factor influencing intergenerational mobility and trends in inequality over time is economic opportunity.

Janet Yellen

The biggest single challenge to America and our future is income inequality. We've got to fix it.

Kenneth Langone

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Helene D. Gayle

Hillary Clinton, income inequality, it's richest damn woman next to the Kennedy family, and you're trying to tell me she cares about income inequality?

Joe Biden

The triumph of economic liberalization has coincided with a sharp increase in income inequality.

Chrystia Freeland

The Princeton economist Alan Krueger has demonstrated that societies with higher levels of income inequality are societies with lower levels of social mobility.

George Packer

Does inequality in the distribution of income increase or decrease in the course of a country's economic growth?

Simon Kuznets

The best solution to income inequality is providing a high-quality education for everybody. In our highly technological, globalized economy, people without education will not be able to improve their economic situation.

Ben Bernanke

You need some inequality to grow... but extreme inequality is not only useless but can be harmful to growth because it reduces mobility and can lead to political capture of our democratic institutions.

Thomas Piketty

They talk about income inequality. I’m for income inequality.

Rick Santorum

When inequality gets too extreme, then it becomes useless for growth, and it can even become bad because it tends to lead to high perpetuation of inequality over time and low mobility.

Thomas Piketty

Until we fix the deep-rooted problems of economic inequality, we cannot expect young people to experience the best childhood and adolescence.